linux/Documentation/RCU
Paul E. McKenney 2aef619c75 rcu: Document SRCU dead-CPU capabilities, emphasize read-side limits
The current documentation did not help someone grepping for SRCU to
learn that disabling preemption is not a replacement for srcu_read_lock(),
so upgrade the documentation to bring this out, not just for SRCU,
but also for RCU-bh.  Also document the fact that SRCU readers are
respected on CPUs executing in user mode, idle CPUs, and even on
offline CPUs.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2012-09-23 07:42:23 -07:00
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00-INDEX rcu: Remove conditional compilation for RCU CPU stall warnings 2011-05-05 23:16:54 -07:00
arrayRCU.txt
checklist.txt rcu: Document SRCU dead-CPU capabilities, emphasize read-side limits 2012-09-23 07:42:23 -07:00
listRCU.txt Doc: Fix wrong API example usage of call_rcu(). 2009-04-02 01:33:50 -07:00
lockdep-splat.txt rcu: Document interpretation of RCU-lockdep splats 2011-09-28 21:38:28 -07:00
lockdep.txt rcu: Update documentation for additional RCU lockdep functions 2011-09-28 21:38:25 -07:00
NMI-RCU.txt rcu: Fix RCU's NMI documentation 2011-09-28 21:36:44 -07:00
rcu.txt rcu: Add documentation for raw SRCU read-side primitives 2011-12-11 10:31:41 -08:00
rcubarrier.txt rcu: Update documentation to cover call_srcu() and srcu_barrier(). 2012-07-02 12:34:03 -07:00
rculist_nulls.txt netfilter: nf_conntrack: nf_conntrack_alloc() fixes 2009-07-16 14:03:40 +02:00
rcuref.txt doc/RCU: fix pseudocode in rcuref.txt 2008-09-10 08:36:07 +02:00
RTFP.txt rcu: Bring RTFP.txt up to date. 2012-02-21 09:03:21 -08:00
stallwarn.txt rcu: Update stall-warning documentation 2012-02-21 09:03:52 -08:00
torture.txt rcu: Update documentation to cover call_srcu() and srcu_barrier(). 2012-07-02 12:34:03 -07:00
trace.txt rcu: Rework detection of use of RCU by offline CPUs 2012-02-21 09:06:07 -08:00
UP.txt rcu: Add synchronize_sched_expedited() rcutorture doc + updates 2009-07-03 10:02:29 +02:00
whatisRCU.txt rcu: Document SRCU dead-CPU capabilities, emphasize read-side limits 2012-09-23 07:42:23 -07:00